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Over the past five decades, several important works have been published on various aspects of Black women's history, including Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms (CH, Apr'17, 54-4030), also edited by Hobson (Univ. at Albany, SUNY), and Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies (CH, Aug'10, 47-7179), edited by Frances Smith Foster, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and Stanlie M. James. However, the work under review attempts a more comprehensive study in terms of time and place, covering ancient eras up to the present in locales across four continents. Black feminist theory, as well as some queer theory, is woven through the 35 relatively short essays, presented in five parts with a generally thematic and chronological arrangement. The international, interdisciplinary contributors tackle topics as disparate as ancient Egypt, the kingdom of Kush, the Haitian Revolution, abolition, anti-colonialism, 20th-century and present day political and literary movements, and much more. There are several illustrations, but unfortunately their placement is uneven among the chapters. This important, impeccably written and edited work collocates diverse views and subjects within Black women's studies and will undoubtedly be a point of reference for decades to come.Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers through faculty.